Ulrich Gall

we didn't build flapping wings to fly why would we need consciousness for AI? evolution made things that contract we made things that rotate survival+reproduction had to be at the root of all action suffering, joy, love, hate, selfishness, altruism so much complexity we can skip all that and leave choices to the humans

@pitdesi Here is the table with % of population added. The US has the fewest in all categories.

The average physician in the US makes $458k. In Canada, $195k. In Sweden, $115k! These are PPP adjusted nber.org/system/files/w…

@pitdesi Yep, those were the days! Such good memories traveling together, @pitdesi !

I agree. Most fun was traveling in my 20s and staying in hostels, getting lost (no phone), having to figure out how to eat veggie food by walking into the kitchen and pointing at things I could eat, then having them make the most delicious meal. Had so many hostel friends then!

@pitdesi Europe is, indeed. Whoever wins the charge infrastructure competition may end up having huge fleet of recruitable sleeper agents. Will be interesting to see who has an easier time getting permits for charging stations, Tesla or BYD...

Latest BYD car can charge to 70% in 5 minutes at their “Flash Stations.” They’ve already built over 4,200 stations in China and are now expanding across Europe. 500 mile range too. We’re so far behind :( arstechnica.com/cars/2026/03/b…

Imagine being trapped for days under a heavy log in freezing mud, only for a stranger in a canoe to appear out of nowhere. 🚣‍♂️ 🐕 While paddling solo across Canada, adventurer Tom Hudson took a chance route around a remote island on the Saskatchewan River. That decision saved a life. He heard faint whimpering and found Ivy, a 14-year-old Great Pyrenees, pinned under a log and partially submerged. Exhausted and unable to move her hind legs, Ivy had been missing for days. Tom waded through thick mud, freed her from the debris, and carried the weak dog to his canoe. He later tracked down her owners, Tom and Janine Stait, who had been searching for her daily. Thanks to a miracle, Ivy was reunited with her family just in time! ✨

@pitdesi Snowboards can be quite fun. Surfboards, too. But electric hydrofoil surfboards are the most glamorous.

Boards may sound glamorous, but I assure you they are not.

@Plinz @elonmusk @Kekius_Sage So nice the see this combination of appreciation and empathy for @elonmusk , thanks for saying that @Plinz

@elonmusk @Kekius_Sage I know. I am sorry for much of the experience you are having, we see you are trying your best, against almost everyone else, who are mostly not trying their best

Do you think Elon Musk is happier than us, or just louder?

@AndyM1928 @elonmusk Plus some of them have created value by building and running companies and by making good resource allocation choices, and they pass on the fruits of that.

@elonmusk The only durable gifts rich people pass on are public works (and I guess the technological progress of their enterprises) Philanthropic foundations are a waste of money.

They really hated Louis XIV for building Versailles, but now it’s a national treasure of France 🇫🇷

@ESYudkowsky 's #1 topic right now happens to be one where we won't be around to gather any empirical data... with risk, sometimes we have to reason our way through it, precisely because it is about low probability events. [that said, I'm an optimist and prefer the risk of being happy but wrong over being an unhappy pessimist and right, and find it pointless at best to stoke pessimism about things we cannot change anyway]

don't know what exactly is at the bottom of the UFO phenomenon, but most people make the same fundamental error: they try to reason what's going on from first principles, when it's really an empirical question For example: "it can't be extraterrestrials because the distances in the universe are too great" or "they would have killed us by now" etc it's true distances seem insurmountable or aliens could have enslaved us, BUT... **if ETs are in fact here**, then it's our theories that have to update, rather than throwing out empirical data

I once received a call from a doctor in the US: "The fax with the blood tests results came in. We should do an MRI of your kidney." Me: Ok, can we do it today or tomorrow? I'm flying to Panama on Saturday. US doc: Oh no you can't do that, don't go there without getting your kidney checked. You can probably get an appointment in a couple weeks or so." Me: schedules MRI for Sunday, in Panama. Modern equipment, US trained radiologist and dr, results discussed via WhatsApp the same day.

@outscape @pitdesi Terrible and untrue point. Trivial problems are trivial in the third world. But it's silly to worry about trivial problems.

This is awesome. We require prescriptions for a lot of stuff that is totally safe and OTC in other countries. It’s stupid and unhealthy that I can’t get an albuterol inhaler in an emergency when I leave it at home on a trip, or get a cream for a skin condition I’ve had before.

@Andercot it's so bad that all the trees in the area turned pink!

Thermal cameras detect heat, not pollution. I think so much of the news basically assumes the population is barely literate.

@chrisdo84546069 @pitdesi point is that it's actually easier to deal with getting sick in a developing country these days than in the US. Unless you have cancer

@outscape @pitdesi Worrying about wasting time is a miniscule problem compared to being sick in the 3rd world.

@pitdesi So yes, this is an awesome development!

We're already at the point where a main concern when visiting the US is getting sick and wasting time on getting a prescription. So much better in "developing" countries. Another thing that got amplified by AI. Seems like the vast majority of urgent care visits could be eliminated by the responsive use of AI combined with easier access to medication.

The "2 businesses" division makes no sense to me. A car company monetizes its ability to design new models of cars by making and selling.. cars, in the factory. That's one business, not two. AI labs indeed have two lines of business that monetize their ability to train new models: API access and consumer facing service. More like a car company also selling parts.

@typesfast @elonmusk A family van would be nice! Ideally interior transformable to a doubled bed so FSD can drive you door to door overnight. But my understanding is that Cybertruck’s bulkhead (behind cab) is structural so maybe it’s a different vehicle? Robovan?

@elonmusk Can we have a cybertruck van so we can have bigger families plz?

Model S & X are great cars! Order yours before we sunset the program in a few months. Tesla.com

@christianmiele Dalio: “Winning means getting the things that are most important without losing the things that are most important, so wars that cost much more in lives and money than they provide in benefits are stupid. “ Ummm … I’m not impressed ?

One of my favorite thinkers (and investors) 👇🏻

@compliantvc Oh the dangers of sarcasm… this is why we have emoticons

Elon Musk just called me a "fool" Such crass language has no place on social media I'll be submitting a report on this to the European Union Commission on Free Speech so they can have it taken down

@DavidSHolz @maxhaot Amazing!!! View from our rooftop in alameda.

@maxhaot it was so cool!!!!!!

If you are in the LA area - don’t miss this tonight. A visible reentry trail will likely be visible towards the direction of the ocean.

I) If the US intervenes, the usual narrative is smoother if people think the whole thing came out of the blue than if they are aware of the protests J) Too dissonant with Gaza protests K) Legacy media trauma from being on the wrong side of history with praising Khomeini in 1979; wishful thinking in the other direction. Consistent with pessimism observed in legacy media regarding outcomes

Why didn’t mainstream media properly cover one of the biggest stories of our time in Iran? Some guesses. Not particularly high quality, as I am grasping at straws a bit. A) It is likely a revolution and, if it is, it is about to hand a huge win to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. By far the most likely. B) It’s mask off time as our rivals in China somehow have their hooks in our media via business models in a way I don’t grasp and didn’t fully understand. C) Revolutionaries among editors and journalists are more powerful than I had understood and don’t want to lose the Red-Green alliance (where Jihadi Militants are the only disciplined lunatics willing to pick up a gun and massacre civilians at scale for a fever dream revolution against the West in a semi-organized fashion). D) The west got out of the Foreign Correpondent game decades ago and hasn’t been reporting news for so long that they don’t actually know how to report a major story of this magnitude. E) I’m getting this totally wrong. I’m making a mountain out of a molehill because of what I WANT to happen, and this is just the usual set of protests which always fizzle out against the Mullahs. F) There really is some Davos-type secret agenda that mere mortals like yours truly can’t understand and which is little understood outside the true Illuminati. I’ve been wrong all along and the hard core conspiracists are right: the so-called “Breakaway Society” is totally real has been supporting the Ayatollahs all this time to keep the public off balance and the arms industry afloat. It’s all about chess, oil and guns baby. G) The news is cooperating with NATO, EU and the USG requests to use “Strategic Silence” until it is a done deal. Perhaps Turkey and Saudi are worried about anti-Islamist contagion. H) No progressive in media wants to report on virulent “Islamophobia” breaking out among Muslims actually subject to the brutality of Sharia Law. It makes you look like an idiot in too many completely different ways. ——- I’d go with A) mostly. But I have been confused since December as to why it isn’t being properly covered. Sorry? I’m at a loss on specifics. 🤷‍♀️ 🙏

To be honest, even I didn’t see this level of suppression coming…and I’m the Kayfabe guy. I wouldn’t have thought this level of make believe posssible for the New York Times. I got that totally wrong. It’s beyond comprehension, even for me. Here are my guesses:

@JoeyMannarino Hey at least they haven't run out of nail polish yet...

This is what passes for an afternoon snack for a Cuban these days. Cubans are starving. The communist government is literally killing them through starvation with their rationing system. Cuba is on the verge of collapse.